This is a visible and important international meeting
for parallel scientific computing and parallel numerical algorithms.
The conference provides a forum for communication among the applied
mathematics and scientific computing communities and researchers in
other disciplines, such as computer science and geoscience.

For this ninth conference, we have chosen to emphasize
the interaction with application scientists who have large scale
computation, data, and storage needs which lead to the use of
parallel machines.The conference will be held jointly with the Fifth
SIAM Conference on Geosciences, with
overlap sessions planned to encourage interaction among participants
of both meetings. In addition, some of the invited speakers will be
talking about parallel computing opportunities in novel application domains.

The activity group on supercomputing provides a forum
for computational mathematicians, computer scientists, computer
architects, and computational scientists to exchange ideas on
mathematical algorithms and computer architecture needed for
high-performance computer systems. The group's activities promote
this interaction by focusing on the interplay of analytical methods,
numerical analysis, and efficient computation. In addition to
organizing the biennial SIAM Parallel Processing conference, the
group cosponsors other conferences and provides an electronic
newsletter to all members.